Ben Crane

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Ryan Palmer, Brooks Koepka and Greg Owen each shot 6-under 64 Thursday for a three-way tie atop the leaderboard after the opening round of the St. Jude Classic.

Palmer, a three-time PGA Tour winner, turned in a bogey-free round with six birdies in the afternoon to join Koepka and Owen atop the leaderboard at TPC Southwind. Koepka, who won in Phoenix earlier this year, matched his low round of 2015 with eight birdies and two bogeys, while Owen shot his best round this year with no bogeys and six birdies.

Adam Scott was a surprise arrival to the Dell Technologies Championship for the second event in the FedEx Cup playoffs. He was planning to skip the opening two playoff events, and thus end his season, because his wife was expecting their second child in...

Sam Saunders can lay claim to leading the Genesis Open at Riviera Country Club for a second straight day. And he did it without picking up a club.
Play in the second round was suspended at 12:18 p.m. Friday when high winds and a driving rain from a...

Ben Crane made a 14-foot birdie putt on his last hole Friday for a seven-under-par 63 and a one-stroke lead after two rounds at the Byron Nelson in Irving, Texas.
At 12-under 128, Crane was one stroke ahead of Jordan Spieth, Sergio Garcia, Brooks...

A rules official approached Jason Gore about slow play as the golfer walked to his drive on the South Course's 18th fairway in Saturday's third round of the Farmers Insurance Open.
"Steve Rintoul came up and put us on the clock," said Gore, who was 251...

The Torrey Pines South Course is 7,568 yards of hard labor. Playing it is the equivalent of pushing a boulder uphill through sand. Its outer beauty hides a thoroughly nasty heart.
There is no regular PGA Tour course any longer, and few tougher outside...

South Korean Jenny Shin shot a bogey-free, seven-under-par 66 Thursday for a one-stroke lead after the opening round at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, the second major of the season.
Canadian teenager Brooke Henderson had a three-putt bogey on the...

The Golf Boys finally got some much needed street cred.It was right before last year’s U.S. Openwhen a bunch of young Americans who called themselves “The Golf Boys” took quite a bit of criticism for the silly video spoof they did. At a time when their...